Subject: readonly

From: Elida Bautista <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 11:11:02 -0500 (EST)

My e-mail will not allow me to delete, and all of my folders indicate that
they are "read-only". I did not give it a command to lock the folders, so
I was wondering how I can take off this "lock" from my folders. Thank you,
Elida M. Bautista

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 22:22:37 +0100 (CET)

>I was wondering how I can take off this "lock" from my folders. Thank you,

Try chmod u+w <file/dir-name> or consult the appropriate man-page. If
unsuccessful, talk to your sysadmin - those files _must_ be both rw + mode
changeable by the owner (you).

Cheers,
Robin

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   Robin S. Socha	 Political Science Dept.	Tel: +49(0228)22217-8
   Bonner Talweg 56	 Bonn University		Fax: +49(0228)22217-9
   53113 Bonn		 email: [email-masked]
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       On the package it said: "Requires MS Windows 3.11 or better"  
	       			      ...  so I got myself Linux. 
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From: [email-masked] (Sven Guckes)
Date: 25 Jan 1997 17:59:04 GMT

[email-masked] (Elida Bautista):
> I was wondering how I can take off this "lock" from my folders.

	chmod o+w file

This adds write permission to a file for the owner.

Example:

	chmod o+w ~/Mail/elidab

Of course this works for a bunch of files, too:

	chmod o+w ~/Mail/*

Learn UNIX!  :-)

Sven